normally produces no results. It simply prints the standard ‘Command(s) completed successfully.’ One significant implication of this is that if the where clause includes something like

[column_name] = null

It will filter out all rows. The best way to look for Nulls is to use

[column_name] is null

But, whether or not Nulls are comparable can be controlled by the use of the Ansi_Nulls session setting. The default for Ansi_Nulls is on, and in fact the documentation warns that ANSI_NULLS may always be ON, with no way to turn it off, in future versions. Until then, this test script: